Pax
I am quite confused by the violence against Christians in India right now. It has been going on for awhile and since the news died down I had “hoped” that perhaps peace was restoring itself. This morning though brings news of more violence in Kerela. My ears pricked up upon hearing this part of the country mentioned because we have beautiful Carmelite Sisters of St.Teresa who work at the Seminary here in the city and they are from this area of India.
Today I wish to unite my prayers with others who wish to pray for peace and understanding to come upon this nation and peoples. May the Holy Spirit sweep through the land and inspire souls to love and to work together for the good of all humanity in love of our Heavenly Father.
Here is a prayer from Pope John Paul II. It is called “Prayer for Peace To Mary, The Light of Hope”.
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
help us to conquer the menace of evil,
which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today,
and whose immeasurable effects
already weigh down upon our modern world
and seem to block the paths toward the future.
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every
kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the
children of God, deliver us.
From every kind of injustice in the life of society, both national
and international, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.
From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God,
deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.
Accept, 0 Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,
laden with the sufferings of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin: individual
sin and the “sin of the world,” sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world the
infinite saving power of the redemption: the power of merciful love.
May it put a stop to evil.
May it transform consciences.
May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the fight of hope.
Amen.
